Coin-wrapper.



No. 831,115. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

R. SPURGIN.

COIN WRAPPER.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 23, 1904.

ATTO

ROBERT SIURGIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COIN-WRAPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed February 23,1904- Serial Nu. 194,780.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Itonnn'r SPUJHHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at (hicago, in the county of (00k and State ol' linois, have invented a new and useful (oin- Wrapper, of which the following is a specilication.

The object of my invention is to provide. a printed coin-wrapper to be used either with a gummed edge or without, which when used upon a rouleau of coin will denote the total value, as well as the denomination of the coin contained therein, without the necessity of turnin or even touching the rouleau in any case, tlius serving the double useful purpose of saving time and labor and minimizing the danger of errors and loss in paying out or receiving wrapped coin. It is the experience of bank-tellers, cashiers, and others who are accustomed to handling rouleaus oi" coin that the natural tendentw of such shaped packages often is, especially when hastily laid down, -to roll over and over, being cylindrical. Therefore in the case of the printed coin-wrappers heretofore commonly in use of which I have knowledge it is entirely a matter of chance whether the printed designation of their contents can be seen by one as the rouleau lies before him or not, for the reason that it may be on the side of the rolled package opposite to his point of view. The necesslty of handling the rouleau in many cases to examineits label, and thus remove any doubt as to its value on account of the similarity in size. between some denominations of coin, such particularly as one-cent and five-cent pieces and five-cent and twenty-livecent pieces, is therefore apparent.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a coin-wrapper for wrapping two dollars in five-cent piecesm (I, a direct column of main designations; l) b, an inverted column of main designations; c c c c, marginal rows of designations; (I (l, separatin -lines between the face and tuck-margins oi the coin-wrap per; e e, tuck-margins; f, face of coin-wrapper. Fig. .2 represents a rouleau of two dollars in iive-cent pieces.

A more particular description of my invention is as follows: My improved coin-wrapper consists of a sheet of paper of a size suited to the denomination of coin to be. wrapped and the rouleau to be made up, on which printed direct designations indicating the total amount and denomination of the rouleau are repeated at regular intervals in a ver- On each of the tuck-margins c c, which when the roulcau is complete form the tnckfor both ends of therolled package, Figs. I and .2, a c, a row of designations of the. total amount of coin to be contained likewise appear separated by regular intervals, the. designations being abbreviated, Fig. I, c c c c, and being set at right angles to the separating-lines between the face f of the coin-wrapper and the tuck-margins e 6, their bases toward the edges of the sheet. The designations in all the columns and rows on one wrapper correspond as to the amount to be contained. I preferably employ five designations of value for the direct and inverted columns aa l) b and seven designations of' value for the marginal rows 0 c c c for each of the several sizes of coinwrappers required, the intervals being relative y alike for the different sizes. I preferably s0 arrange the inner columns of designations it a b b that the amount of a rouleau in dollars or cents in one column will appear on the facef of a roll of coin directly opposite the denominational description of the coin contained therein in the other, Figs. 1 and 2, u a l) b. I preferably make the two columns and two rows of printed designations coextensive with the length of the sheet in order that the coin-wrap )er may be used with exactly the same resu t whether starting at one end or the other in wrapping the rouleau, which action when ungummed coin-wrappers are used will be merely a matter of choice or convenience on the part of the user. 1 preferablv place the direct and inverted columns a a l) l) contiguous to the tuck-margins ol" the coin-wra per 0 e rather than nearer the middle in on er that ample clear unbroken space suilicient for making any desired notations or imprint, such as a date or name, may be left for that purpose on the face of arouleau 'lhe etl'ect of the repetition and arrange ment of the designations as described is to make always certain the appearance at what may chance to be at the time the right-hand side of a rouleau when lying horizontal and sulliciently in view a direct printed designation of the contents both numeric and descriptive, as but two designations in either column are hidden in Wrapping, or if the mu lean be so placed that only the fiat transverse part is in View one at least of the designations on the tuck margin is certain to be clearly in view, even without care on the part of the user in tucking, to produce that result, Fig. 2, c e.

I am aware that plural direct and inverted eolumnatcd designations have been used before in a contracted form in a labeling strap or band for flat rectangular packages of paper currency for the purpose of indicatin the value of such packages on their perpendicular edges, but not in coin-wrappers intended to envelo and label cylindrical ackages of coin. I db not, therefore, claim t e princi le of direct and inverted indicia, Fig. 1, a a b, broadly as new; but

What I do claim, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent, is-- A coin-wrapper for cylindrical packages of ROBERT SPURGIN. .Witnesses M. R. BARTSCII, F. R. BARTSCH. 

